Using up nylon inks

[Scobey Peterman]

Most of my printing is done on Athletic Uniforms.  The market has changed from nylon to mainly poly material.

So I have about 16 gallons of nylon inks I would like to use up.

Last week I used Nylon royal on some white poly lacrosse uniforms.  Worked great.

Now I have a job for about 300 t-shirts that will require Col. Blue and Navy inks.

I have both of these in the nylon series.

My question is how much curable reducer and/or soft hand could I add to the nylon ink to use on t-shirts??

The t-shirts will also be col. blue and navy.

Thanks for you help.

 

[SHedge]

Hi Scobey,

Adding Curable Reducer or Soft Hand Clear to nylon mesh inks when printing on polyester garments is OK when the ink color is dark enough the dye migration from the garment will not alter the ink color.  In your instance, printing the navy ink on Columbia Blue garments is OK.  However, I would not recommend printing the Columbia Blue ink on the navy garment.  The dye migration from the navy polyester is likely to alter the shade of the Columbia Blue ink.

Addition of about 20% CR or SHC to the nylon inks when printing on polyester fabrics should be fine.

Steve Hedge
Technical Services Manager, Specialty Inks & Polymer Systems
PolyOne Corporation

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[Colin]

Scobey:

For the Navy T-shirts, are you going to underbase the Columbia Blue or print flash print?  Also, cotton or 50/50 garments?

For the Navy ink on Columbia T Shirt, - who's inks are you using btw? - I would start by adding 5% of a curable reducer and checking viscocity.  If you feel the ink is still a bit thick, up your % to 10% total.

The inks will print well on cotton shirts, the print might be a little fuzzy from lack of fibre trap, but tis the nature of the ink.